Analyzing 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, delivered by the LHC
and recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 during Run 2, various SUSY searches for the electroweak production of gauginos and sleptons were pursued. More challenging than searches for strongly produced supersymmetric particles, many of these searches show their first results with data of Run 2. In particular, searches for higgsinos are able to reach sensitivities that surpass LEP limits for the first time using LHC data.